Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
According to Michael G Schwern:
In the same way that we have open() not fopen, fdopen, freopen... we
can choose the safest and most sensible technique for determining
the cwd and use that.
And there is more than one open. Perl does have
Johan Vromans skribis 2005-04-21 8:22 (+0200):
This is exactly the point (I think) Schwern is trying to make. There
is 'open', that will do most of the time. If a novice user asks how to
open a file, you can say Well, just 'open $fh, $file'. If you want
more than vanilla file access, there
According to Michael G Schwern:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:31:57PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
There are several methods to determine the current directory.
Perl 6 is going to have to decide on some sort of standard internal getcwd
technique, $CWD or not.
I don't think Perl 6 has to do
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:32:23PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
Perl 6 is going to have to decide on some sort of standard internal getcwd
technique, $CWD or not.
I don't think Perl 6 has to do anything of the kind. It would
be a mistake to try.
Sorry, I had assumed that having a
On Saturday 16 April 2005 01:53, Michael G Schwern wrote:
How cwd() is implemented is not so important as what happens when it hits
an edge case. So maybe we can try to come up with a best fit cwd(). I'd
start by listing out the edge cases and what the possible behaviors are.
Maybe we can
According to Michael G Schwern:
Yes, there are lots of ways to check the cwd each filling in one edge
case or another. However I'd like to believe its possible to come up with
one simple, safe cwd() that works for 99.9% of the cases and call that cwd().
Well, it's certainly possible ... and
Chip Salzenberg wrote:
As you know, under Unix, there's no such thing as the current
directory as a string. The only durable current directory is the
device and inode of Cstat('.'). It's not wise to conflate the
current directory with a name that at some point in the past could
have been used to
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 08:31:57PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
According to Michael G Schwern:
And this is exactly what File::chdir does. $CWD is a tied scalar.
I don't think current directory maps well on a variable. That won't
stop people from using it, of course. :-(
There are
